Circulation of government-acquired local newspapers has plummeted in rural Hungary, while state-funded propaganda is distributed for free, explains HVG
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14. apr 2022.
Greece: Journalist Thanasis Koukakis surveilled for 10 weeks with powerful new spyware tool
The International Press Institute (IPI) today expressed serious alarm over the confirmed surveillance of Greek journalist Thanasis Koukakis for more than two months using a powerful spyware tool, Predator. IPI calls on the competent Greek law enforcement authorities to thoroughly investigate and publicly identify the source of the surveillance.
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25. mar 2022.
Ukraine: Fifth journalist killed in line of duty in one month
The International Press Institute (IPI) today expresses deep sadness over the death of Russian journalist Oksana Baulina, who was tragically killed by Russian shelling in Kyiv while she was carrying out her professional duties. Amid growing attacks on the press in Ukraine, IPI calls on international investigatory bodies to prosecute all targeted attacks on the press as war crimes under international law.
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19. mar 2022.
In Serbia, Threats And Insults Are A Cost Of Reporting On Russia’s Invasion Of Ukraine
No one is comparing Miljko Stojanovic to increasingly at-risk foreign journalists covering Russia's invasion from the ground in Ukraine.
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04. mar 2022.
Ukraine: CoE platform partners demand protection of journalist safety
IPI and other members of the Council of Europe’s Platform to Promote the Protection of Journalism and Safety of Journalists today published a joint statement calling for the protection of journalists covering Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and for the provision of urgent and practical assistance to reporters on the ground.
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02. mar 2022.
Fellowship 2022: Choices – Call For Applications
We are awarding 10 fellowships to journalists from Central and South-Eastern Europe who have an idea for a story that needs dedicated on-the-ground reporting, in-depth research, generous funding and sustained editorial attention to do it justice.
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24. feb 2022.
IPI: Journalist safety must be protected as Russia launches invasion of Ukraine
The IPI global network of editors, journalists and publishers today expresses steadfast support for and solidarity with our members and journalist colleagues in Ukraine in the wake of Russia’s attack on the country. We demand that journalist safety and the right to cover developments independently and without fear of retaliation be protected.
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11. feb 2022.
Belarus: 18 months of media repression
On February 9, one-and-a-half years will have passed since presidential elections in Belarus widely considered to be fraudulent. Since then, journalists have been detained more than 500 times by the Belarusian state authorities as part of a wide-ranging crackdown on media freedom following nationwide protests.
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28. jan 2022.
Third Mexican Journalist Murdered This Year
A Mexican journalist who investigated corruption around the country and had been fearful for her life since 2019 was shot and killed outside her home in Tijuana on Sunday.
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21. dec 2021.
Serbia: Wave of lawsuits against investigative portal KRIK chills media freedom
IPI joins MFRR statement urging anti-SLAPP legislation after barrage of lawsuits
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14. dec 2021.
Hungary’s Szabolcs Panyi on how Pegasus surveillance has hindered his reporting
It took five months for Hungary to acknowledge publicly that it had bought the Pegasus spyware allegedly used to hack the phones of hundreds around the world. In November, Lajos Kósa, a top official from Hungary’s ruling Fidesz party, acknowledged the purchase in a media interview after a parliamentary meeting; Minister of the Interior Sándor Pintér confirmed it in front of a visiting delegation from the European Parliament it later in the month.
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03. dec 2021.
CPJ welcomes convictions in retrial for Serbian journalist Slavko Ćuruvija’s murder
In a retrial today, the Higher Court in Belgrade convicted four former Serbian state security officers of the 1999 murder of journalist Slavko Ćuruvija, owner of the mass-circulation Dnevni Telegraf, Serbia’s first private daily, and the weekly magazine Evropljanin, independent regional news website Balkan Insight reported. Ćuruvija, 51, was shot and killed on April 11, 1999, outside his home near the Yugoslav Parliament building.
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03. dec 2021.
Convictions overturned and retrial ordered for murder of Serbian journalist Ćuruvija
The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists for press freedom, today expressed dismay after a court in Belgrade overturned the convictions of those found guilty of the 1999 murder of Serbian journalist Slavko Ćuruvija and ordered a retrial.
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02. dec 2021.
Enemy of the State: How a Serbian Journalist Became a Shooting Target
As a court delivers its verdict on the alleged killers of Serbian newspaper editor Slavko Curuvija in 1999, some of his closest allies look back on his career and explain why Slobodan Milosevic’s regime targeted him.
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30. nov 2021.
IPI Board: Let Maria Ressa travel to Oslo, drop all charges
Leading editors from 22 countries underscore global solidarity with Nobel Peace Prize laureate
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23. nov 2021.
Local trainers in the Western Balkans prepared to conduct online courses on “Freedom of Expression” and “Protection and Safety of Journalists”
The Council of Europe standards on freedom of expression can be more effectively implemented by offering training in this field to different local actors such as judges, prosecutors, lawyers, police officers or students who could then apply these standards in their current or future work. This should contribute to the creation of a favourable environment for exercising freedom of expression and freedom of the media at the domestic level.
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16. nov 2021.
Using Comics, Music, and Theater to Bring Investigative Journalism to New Audiences
Convoca, a digital investigative platform based in Peru, wanted to show how people poisoned by lead released from heavy industry were also struggling with COVID-19. Their chosen medium: comics. Milagros Salazar Herrera, the director and founder of Convoca, a GIJN-member, said the team chose an interactive comic to tell the story because “that could help…
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14. nov 2021.
Suspended sentence for death threat to Serbia’s daily editor-in-chief
On the occasion of threatening the editor-in-chief of Danas, Dragoljub Petrovic, the High Court in Belgrade sentenced a man from Belgrade Lazarevac suburb to one year in prison, suspended for three years, for the criminal offence of endangering security after five years, the daily said on Friday.
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06. nov 2021.
IPI welcomes U.S. blacklisting of NSO Group over Pegasus spyware abuses
The IPI global network today welcomes the decision by the United States government to blacklist Israeli company NSO Group over the abuse of its spyware technology Pegasus to target journalists and others, and urged other democratic countries around the world to follow the Biden administration’s lead by sanctioning and regulating the technology.
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02. nov 2021.
Uruguay to host 2022 World Press Freedom Day Conference
Uruguay will be the next host of the World Press Freedom Day global conference.